In Anderson Park in Atlanta, workers found more than a dozen decapitated animals, chickens, ducks, goats, and sheep, at what police described as a ritual site. It is one of five incidents Atlanta police are investigating for potential links to an online extremist group called 764. In February, a separate incident in Atlanta involved a man beheading a dog before barricading himself inside a home. The FBI has recognized 764 as an organized extremist network since its formation in 2021.

This is not a fringe online curiosity. It is a documented, active, and expanding threat to children.

764 operates primarily in online chatrooms and private platforms. Its targets are teenagers, in some cases as young as 9 years old. The group contacts minors, moves them to private platforms, and then grooms them through intimidation and abuse. Once it has compromising material, it uses that leverage to coerce its victims into acts of animal cruelty, self-harm, and violence against others. Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum described the pattern plainly: lure, isolate, groom, coerce.

The original leaders of 764 were arrested. The group fragmented. And then it kept going, operating under the same name with the same tactics, because the online infrastructure that enables it has not been dismantled and the platforms that host its recruitment and grooming operations have not been held accountable.

That is the core failure this petition addresses. 764 does not exist in a physical headquarters that can be raided. It exists in the chatrooms, private messaging apps, and online communities that connect its members to their victims. Every child recruited into 764's network was contacted through a platform. Every piece of compromising material used to coerce a minor was transmitted through a platform. And those platforms have legal, moral, and in some cases regulatory obligations to detect, report, and prevent the use of their services to groom children into violence.

The FBI knows what 764 is. Local law enforcement is now investigating multiple incidents across a single American city. The tools to act exist. What is missing is the federal commitment to treat 764 as the organized criminal threat it is, dedicate the resources necessary to dismantle its online networks, and hold the platforms enabling its recruitment accountable for what is happening on their services.

A 9-year-old child should not be reachable by an extremist grooming network through an app on their phone. That is not an acceptable baseline for American children in 2026.

Sign this petition to demand the FBI and DOJ dedicate federal resources to dismantling the 764 extremist network, require online platforms to actively detect and report 764-linked grooming activity targeting minors, and pass federal legislation holding platforms accountable when their services are used to recruit and coerce children into violence.